The military high command seems to have sealed the fate of state governments seeking to establish their own security outfit, with an admonition to such states on Friday to forget their move.
The service chiefs, rising from a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja, advised all Nigerians and other “stakeholders, local and state governments, to join hands with the Armed Forces of Nigeria to ensure that our country is secured rather than looking at other methods that are likely going to negate the national community policing policy that the federal government has approved.”
The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, briefed State House correspondents at the end of the meeting.
Abubakar’s admonition is seen as a veiled reference to the setting up of the Western Nigeria Security Network (WNSN) codenamed Operation Amotekun.
The Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, had earlier, on Tuesday, declared Operation Amotekun as illegal because “it runs contrary to the provisions of the Nigerian law.”
Malami’s statement has been dismissed as illogical and inconsequential by many prominent Nigerians and groups.
If truely we are one nation in Nigeria, I see no reason why we have Hisbah police operating in Kano & Katsina and the government is now going against the Amotekun in the Yoruba land. I believe all these efforts are to bridge the security lapses in the country as they are going to complement the efforts of the Police and other security forces in the country. If Amotekun is given authority to operate, the rate of criminality will reduce drastically across the region. I plead with the Federal government to please look at it from every angle and I believe it's advantages shall be more, more and more better than it's disadvantages. God bless Nigeria and God bless the Yoruba race. Thanks, Ogunmosu Emmanuel from Ogun state.
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